Gabriel Aivazovsky or Ayvazyan (, ; 22 May 1812 – 20 April 1879) was an

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, scholar, educator and historian. He was the elder brother of the artist

Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (; ) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crime ...

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Gabriel Aivazovsky was born in

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into a family of Armenian merchants. He received a scientific education at the Mkhitarist Monastery on

San Lazzaro Island San Lazzaro degli Armeni (, "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; ) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregati ...

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. He was also a teacher of Oriental languages. In 1848, he was appointed a director of the Armenian College Samuel Moorat in

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, and subsequently founded the same Armenian college. His most important works are "''Essay on the History of Russia''" (in

, 1836), "''History of the Ottoman State''" (also in

, 2 volumes,

, 1841). He was also one of the main staff of Paschal Aucher's (Harutiun Avgerian) Armenian dictionary. In 1843, he and

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founded '' Bazmavep,'' the very first Armenian scholarly journal.

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